Category: CSEE

  • Free screening: CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, 3-5 Fri 3/31, UMBC

    Join the UMBC Computer Science Education Club and the Center for Women in Technology for a free screening of the award winning film, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap. The documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain…

  • talk: Phase synchrony in heart-brain interactions predicts personality and emotions, 1pm 3/17

    UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Phase synchrony in heart-brain interactions predicts personality and emotions Ehsan Shokri Kojori NIH, National Institute on Alcoloh Abuse and Alcoholism 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 17 March 2017, ITE 231 Despite the historical interest in the link between brain and heart, it is unknown whether brain and heart interactions provide meaningful information about emotions…

  • Drs. Joshi and Forno assess CIA Wikileaks ‘Vault7’

    Graphic via shutterstock.com This week’s WikiLeaks release of what is apparently a trove of Central Intelligence Agency information related to its computer hacking should surprise no one: Despite its complaints of being targeted by cyberattackers from other countries, the U.S. does a fair amount of its own hacking. Multiple federal agencies are involved, including the…

  • Prof. Gymama Slaughter on the body as a battery at Baltimore’s Light City festival

    How can we begin to use our body as a power source? The same way we use a battery: by harnessing its chemical energy. As part of the annual Baltimore Light City Festival: A Festival of Light, Music and Innovations, Dr. Gymama Slaughter will present her research work on “The body as a battery –…

  • UMBC Cyber Dawgs to hold student cybersecurity competition on Saturday, March 11

    The UMBC Cyber Dawgs will hold a cybersecurity Capture the Flag competition on Saturday, March 11th from 9am-5pm in the Public Policy building. The event will be a jeopardy-style competition where individual competitors answer questions about aspects of cybersecurity, including network forensics, reverse engineering, reconnaissance, and cryptography. The competition is open to all current UMBC…

  • UMBC CSEE alumnus Josiah Dykstra receives PECASE award for cybercrime work

    Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. ‘13, computer science, has received the prominent Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) for his work on digital forensics cloud computing, with applications in tackling cybercrime. While he was a graduate student at UMBC, Dykstra worked full-time at the National Security Agency, where he remains a cybersecurity researcher, but…

  • talk: Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations

    Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations Dr. Endadul Hoque Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University 12:00pm Wednesday, 22 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Implementations of network protocols are integral components of various networked computing systems, spanning from Internet-of-Things (IoT) to enormous data centers. Research efforts to defend these implementations by introducing new designs…

  • talk: Semantic Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud, 12pm Mon 2/20

    A Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud Dr. Karuna Joshi University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00pm Monday, 20 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC With the explosion of Big Data and the growth of data science, there is an urgent need to automate the data lifecycle of generation, ingestion, analytics, knowledge extraction, and…

  • talk: Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology, 6pm 2/23 Shady Grove

    UMBC Cybersecurity Program Cyber Talk Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology Joshua Franklin 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, 23 February 2017 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 3241 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 ​​The UMBC Cybersecurity Program is proud to bring you Cyber Talk, a new speaker series that highlights special topics in…

  • talk: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data

    Towards End-to-End Security and Privacy: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data Taeho Jung Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 11:00am Tuesday, 14 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC The advent of big data has given birth to numerous innovative life-enhancing applications, but the big data is often called as a…